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FAAM takes detailed methane measurements over tropical Africa
A team of UK scientists have used the FAAM aircraft to take the most detailed measurements yet of the methane in the skies over tropical Africa. Researchers have been investigating a mysterious spike in atmospheric concentrations of methane, which began in 2007. Early...
read moreMOYA project blog
FAAM are currently on detachment in Uganda and Zambia, for the MOYA, HyVic and ZWAMPS projects. MOYA are hosting a blog on their website, which you can find here.
read morePhD opportunity at FAAM
Cranfield University is partnering with FAAM to offer a PhD studentship funded through the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA2) doctoral training program.
read moreFAAM measures ice clouds to improve climate models and weather forecasts.
The FAAM aircraft is flying across the UK throughout January and February 2018 to measure ice clouds, for a research project called PICASSO.
read moreNew Years Honours for FAAM’s Maureen Smith.
We are proud that Maureen Smith, the operations manager and senior flight manager for the joint NERC – Met Office Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), has been awarded a BEM for services to atmospheric science and meteorology.
read moreMonitoring gases from Iceland’s most active volcanoes.
Researchers from NCAS and the Natural Environment Research Council have recently returned from a mission to monitor gases in the skies above Iceland’s active volcanoes.
read moreFAAM measures aerosols from biomass burning around remote Atlantic Island.
The Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) spent August 2017 measuring biomass aerosol on Ascension Island, a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, which is a hotspot for regional biomass burning aerosols released from the African Continent.
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